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(Mu Compatible) WordPress Plugins: Image Code Generator
- by Asher Bond
This plugin embeds an image in your blog and offers the code for others to copy so they can also easily post the same image on their site. The code also encloses your image in a hyperlink that links back to your blog post.
Installation:
- First you must download and install Erik Range’s Syntax Highlighter Plugin.
- Download and Unzip the Image Code Generator Plugin from here.
- Normal Installation: Upload the “imgcode” into your wp-content/plugins directory then just activate the plugin from your “Plugins” screen of wp-admin. (You’re Done!)
- ONLY If you are using WordPress Mu and you want to make this plugin available for ALL BLOGS that you are hosting: Upload the contents of “imgcode” (not the actual directory itself) into wp-content/mu-plugins. (You’re done!)
To use the plugin, put code like this in your new blog posts:
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The plugin will automatically translate code like that into something that looks like this:
[imgcode]http://a162.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/24/l_53b0882d564215ad8726072ac7b3f8d9.jpg[/imgcode]
If you want to include descriptive information about your image (for search engine optimization) just describe your image using alt= like this.
How To Filter and Report Google Groups Spam With Gmail
- by Asher Bond
This morning I was bombarded with about 4,000 spam messages. All of these spam messages were relayed through Google Groups. Fortunately, Gmail has an excellent filtering and labelling system that made it easy to report all of these messages as spam very quickly. Here’s how you can fight thousands of spam messages in just a few minutes using your Gmail account:
Step 1
Open a spam message (any spam will do) and click the “show details” link.

Step 2
Click “filter messages from this mailing list”.

Step 3
Go to the “Has the words” box, and change it to listid:.googlegroups.com>". This will tell gmail to match the pattern .googlegroups.com in the listid header.

It should look like this when you’re done. Click the “Next Step” button.

Step 4
Create a new label for google groups. You can call it “google groups”


Step 5
Check the “Skip the Inbox” if you don’t want to see this spam in your inbox.
Be sure that “Apply this label” is checked.
Check the “Also apply this filter…” box so that the filter retroactively works with existing messages.
Click “Create this filter” and you should see all the spam moved from your inbox to your “google groups” label.

Step 6
Here’s how to report the spam:
Navigate to your “google groups” label (there’s a link to it on your left sidebar).
Click “Select All.”
Now just make sure it’s all spam and report it.

You can also select more than one page at a time, but Gmail won’t let you report multiple pages as spam. You can, however, delete multiple pages of email.